Ex-Professor Gets Life in Prison for Meeting Rampage

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010.

The jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before convicting Amy Bishop. The former professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville showed no reaction as the verdict was read. She did not speak in court, but her attorney said she has often expressed great remorse for the victims and their families.

"She is shattered beyond belief," attorney Roy Miller said.

Bishop avoided a death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the shootings on Feb. 12, 2010. Before the guilty plea — which she signed with a barely legible scrawl — her attorneys had said they planned to use an insanity defense.

However, she was still required to have a brief trial because she admitted to a capital murder charge.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/09/24/us/ap-us-alabama-university-shooting.html

[Marrah_G]

1. This woman should never have been out on the streets

[Marinedem]

2. No kidding.

It's insane that she got away with what she did back in the day.

[4th law of robotics]

3. Good

I hope it legitimately means "life in prison". No possibility of parole for this one.

[frogmarch]

4. I saw a Dateline report about her

in June 2010. It was called "Deadly Ambition."

She got the sentence she deserved.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Did that report give any reason or indications

as to why she did what she did? I've been really curious about that.

[frogmarch]

6. Here's a video report that

includes a lot of the info covered by Dateline.

[bongbong]

7. Guns!

She was a "Wonderful RKBA America-loving Patriot!" (the official NRA terminology) up until .01 microsecond before she started her massacre.

After that, she was a "terrrrrrrible criminal whose crimes had absolutely nothing to do with her gun ownership" (official NRA terminology)